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: Received: 7 April 2024 / Approved: 7 April 2024 / Online: 8 April 2024 (10:32:44 CEST)
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Chakraborty, A. Emplacing Ecological Grief in Last Chance Tourism: Cryospheric Change and Travel in the Arctic. Preprints2024, 2024040535. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0535.v1
Chakraborty, A. Emplacing Ecological Grief in Last Chance Tourism: Cryospheric Change and Travel in the Arctic. Preprints 2024, 2024040535. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0535.v1
Chakraborty, A. Emplacing Ecological Grief in Last Chance Tourism: Cryospheric Change and Travel in the Arctic. Preprints2024, 2024040535. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0535.v1
APA Style
Chakraborty, A. (2024). Emplacing Ecological Grief in Last Chance Tourism: Cryospheric Change and Travel in the Arctic. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0535.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Chakraborty, A. 2024 "Emplacing Ecological Grief in Last Chance Tourism: Cryospheric Change and Travel in the Arctic" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202404.0535.v1
Abstract
Last Chance Tourism (LCT) is an increasingly popular phenomenon whereby tourists seek encounters with vanishing landscapes, cultures, and endangered species. However, there are concerns that it is not sufficiently ecologically informed, has a large carbon footprint, and may put further pressure on vulnerable ecosystems and communities. The Arctic has emerged as a major global frontier for LCT, and at the same time is at the forefront of disruptive and accelerating climate change. Here a review of important LCT literature is combined with a review of key insights from the concept of Ecological Grief, which calls for explicitly mourning the losses of formerly ecologically rich landscapes, species diversity, and traditional knowledge. While there is currently insufficient engagement with grief and mourning in LCT, Ecological Grief can provide a new research focus as well as a pathway to share empathy, concern, and sorrow between scientists, communities, and visitors—thereby offering an alternative way to critically reflect upon our connections with the vanishing cryosphere in the Anthropocene.
Keywords
Last Chance Tourism, Ecological Grief, Loss and mourning, Arctic cryosphere, Disruptive climate change.
Subject
Social Sciences, Tourism, Leisure, Sport and Hospitality
Copyright:
This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
